“We know we have sinned and committed a crime, please forgive us, I’m a family man, I’ve got kids please have mercy,” pleaded two car snatchers in an Accra Circuit Court.
Alex Owusu Appiah, 36 and Kofi Mensah, 48, who both pleaded guilty to two counts of assault and robbery sorrowfully pleaded for mercy prior to their sentencing.
But the court, presided over by Mr Aboagye Tandoh, sentenced them to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour each.
The prosecutor, Inspector Kofi Adu, presenting the facts said on December 4, 2017, at about 1:30 a.m. the two men hired the services of the complainant, from Lapaz to Oyarifa Special Ice.
On reaching a section of the road at J.B Estates, they assaulted the complainant, forced him out of his car and pushed him into a nearby bush.
He said the two men then sped off with a Nokia 16 mobile phone and an amount of GH¢400 left in the car.
“On the same day, at about 8:00am, the police intercepted the vehicle in question together with Appiah and Mensah at Suame roundabout in Kumasi,” the prosecutor said.
Inspector Adu said on December 7, 2017, Appiah and Mensah were brought down from Kumasi to the Ayimensah Police station in the Greater Accra Region for investigation.
Source: Daily Graphic
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You be family man,abi? When you pushed him out of his own car did you consider he was perhaps somebody's father and husband? that was also a family man you pushed out into the ***barred word*** and took away his daily sales. By your actions you denied some people food and probably got innocent kids sacked from school for non-payment of fees! Now you want leniency because you are a family man!Now go to prison and meet your 'new family' who will teach you family values like you have never known before. Ony3 du na!
When they were assaulting the Taxi they did not consider the risks associated and the concerns they were bringing to their to be pleading at this point . Go and spend 10 years without your family and you are able to come out safe you would not do such atrocious and cancerous crimes and put the human resources at unpalatable risks.
KUDOS TO THE POLICE WHO ARRESTED THESE THUGS . THEY DESERVE PROMOTION.